Games like Downpour

Chasing that tense and dark feeling you got from Downpour? These games could fill that gap nicely.

Dig or Die
Crash-land on a hostile planet as a CRAFT & Co tool salesman, dig fast, craft laser guns and turrets, and build a fortress that can actually hold, because every night the monsters you have killed come for your base. Real physics means walls collapse, water floods, and only smart building gets you to the rocket that ends it all.
Tense, Replayable
90% of 3,863 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$5.39
Hover X Souls: Git Gud Edition
Hover X Souls is a refresh of the infinite runner genre. You are X-17 a hover shield combat class robot. You have been tasked with going through training on this planet to become stronger, while helping develop outposts. Master the Hover Shield Combat system, and use it to travel the dark highway while providing protection to Outposts.
Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Vectorio Classic
A minimalist survival base builder where every resource you claim makes your machines run hotter and the enemy shapes angrier. Research new weapons, plan your power grid, and take down four guardians.
Tense, Replayable
93% of 1,474 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Subterrain
Mars colony, one survivor, and an infection that will not wait for you. Tense, grim, and relentless in the best way.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
78% of 1,004 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$16.99
Hull Rupture
Earth is gone, and your ship is a living projectile aimed at the alien homeworld. Hull Rupture is a darkly funny tower-defense roguelite where you manage power, resources and human lives to keep the engines burning, build the ship ever bigger, and plug every hull breach before the aliens get in. Keep moving. Whatever it takes.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
75% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,625$13.49
ROD: Revolt Of Defense
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!
Replayable
80% of 526 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Tin Can
Your ship exploded. Now you drift in an escape pod where every fuse, filter and wire matters, armed with a manual and your own wits. Fix systems, watch your breathing go ragged as oxygen runs low, and see how long you last before the cosmos wins.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
84% of 1,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
CleanFall
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
93% of 508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$11.99
Stranded: Alien Dawn
A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge. Build them a base, keep them fed and sane, and hold the walls when the local wildlife comes knocking. Every run plays out differently, and every decision costs something. A colony sim where the planet is actively trying to ruin your day.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 537$34.99
Signal Zone
Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.
Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
76% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Penkura
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Replayable
89% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Lumencraft
A top-down roguelike shooter where every pixel of terrain can be dug, blasted or shot apart. Mine Lumen in the dark, build a fortified underground base, and hold it against swarming waves. Play the 27-mission campaign, random maps, or bring a friend along on a shared screen.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
75% of 1,088 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Downpour

First Day: Home Defender

Build and protect your home after a nuclear apocalypse!

$0.49

Priceless Return

Relaxing Idle · Casual Mining · Bring Everyone Home! "Insufficient energy to return... but there's ore ahead!"

$0.79

NEOMORPH

This is a simple tower defend like game,click mouse left button to shoot enemies, make sure you don't get hurt. Defeat Neomorph, fight with ladies!

$0.49

Samosbor

The player will take the role of a liquidator destroying the consequences of Samosbor in the narrow corridors of Gigakhrushchevka.

$0.79

Destropolis

Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions.

$0.77

Terra Pit

Dig, explore, and survive in procedurally generated mines. Collect ore, avoid traps, upgrade your gear, and go deeper for greater rewards — or lose…

$0.72

Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution

Survival Zombies is a bloody chaotic survival first person shooter that pits heavily armed players against humanity's greatest fear - hordes of…

$0.49

The Excrawlers

Action-RPG slasher in which you have to get into the dark atmosphere of dungeons full of monsters and madness.

$0.90

WIN THE GAME: DO IT!

WIN THE GAME: DO IT! - is a hardcore game. Try to finish the game without spending your nerves.

$0.49

Ninja Stealth

Evade the guards and the defences to escape the evil facility on this click and play stealth game, there will be difficult on your path, young…

$0.49

Lost Potato

Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly.

$0.98

Chase Survivors

Survive the apocalypse for 15 minutes! In 'Chase Survivors,' evolve your character and your weapons to face hordes of horrifying creatures.

$0.74

Hidden gems like Downpour

CleanFall

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity.

$11.99

LIFE EFFECT Survival

A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.

$14.99

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

MewnBase

Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.

$9.99

Shardpunk

The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!

$13.99

Deep Among the Swarm

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies.

$8.99

Signal Zone

Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy.

$11.99

Hull Rupture

Manage power, people and a growing ship as you plug hull breaches and race toward the alien homeworld.

$13.49

Machine Mind

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.

$19.99

Vectorio Classic

Claim resources, research weapons and hold the line against waves of enemy shapes in a clean little strategy sandbox.

Free

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

$19.99

Urge

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

$17.99

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